66. ĐỀ THI THỬ TN THPT 2023 - MÔN TIẾNG ANH - Sở giáo dục và đào tạo Bình Thuận (Có lời giải chi tiết)

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions from 1 to 3.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions from 4 to 5.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 21 to 25.
Today’s grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations’ online habits couldn’t be more different. The over-55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site’s second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55–64 and 2.9 million over-65s.
Sheila, aged 59, says, ‘I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It’s a much better way to see what they’re doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. That’s how we did it when I was a child, but I think I’m lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.’
Ironically, Sheila’s grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they’re not going far from their smartphones. Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. ‘It’s my alarm clock so I have to,’ she says. ‘I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.’ Unlike her grandmother’s generation, Chloe’s age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn’t heard from in forty years. ‘We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,’ she says. ‘It’s changed my social life completely.’
Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. ‘I was always connected and I felt like I was always working,’ he says. ‘How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?’ So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. ‘I’m not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I’m setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.’ Is it only a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?
(Adapted from https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/bl-reading)

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to each of the following exchanges from 26 to 27.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions from 28 to 29.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions from 30 to 31.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions from 32 to 34.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 35 to 39.
WORKING MOTHERS
Reliable studies have shown that the children of working mothers have no more problems than children (35)_____ mothers stay at home. My personal view is that mothers should work if they wish.
Some women have invested so much in a career that they cannot bear to give it up. Others have to work because of economic necessity, and there are also those who are simply not (36) _____ out to be full-time parents.
There appear to be several options when it comes to choosing childcare. These (37)________ from child minders through to granny or the kind lady across the street. In practice, (38)_______, many parents don't have any choice; they have to accept anything they can get.
No matter how good the available childcare may be, some children protest if their parents are not around. This is a perfectly normal stage in a child's development. Babies over the age of six months become dependent on mum and close family members, so make sure that you allow (39)______ time to help your child settle in.
And don't forget: if you want to do the best for your children, it's not the quantity of time you spend with them, it's the quality that matters.
(Adapted from First Certificate Practice Tests by Charles Osborne)

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions from 40 to 41

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 50.
Are there gender differences in the way boys and girls learn? This is a question that parents, teachers and educational psychologists have asked themselves for many years. For some time, people thought that some differences between boys and girls result from differences in the way they are raised. For example, parents often give young boys trucks to play with, while young girls get to play with dolls. But cross-cultural studies have shown that giving toy trucks to girls and dolls to boys didn't change essential differences in their personalities. Many researchers agree that there are natural male-female differences, including differences in learning styles.
A high school choir director tells a significant story about learning style differences. With the girls, he'll begin teaching a new song by sharing a story about why the composer wrote the song or who it was written for. "Giving the girls some context, telling them a story about the piece, gets them interested. The boys are just the opposite," he said. "If you start talking like that with the boys, they'll start looking at their watches, and they will start getting restless. Then one of them will say, ‘Can we please just learn the song?’"
Another difference in learning styles is the way boys and girls relate to teachers. Most girls want to study hard so that they can please their teachers. Girls are usually more interested than boys in trying to please adults. Pleasing adults is not a strong motivation for most boys, however. Boys are usually less interested in studying unless the material they are studying is really interesting to them.
Girls and boys also react differently to abortive learning experiences. Girls tend to think that if they fail in something, they have disappointed their teachers and parents. When boys fail a test or a class, however, they don't see their failures as having any wider implications. They failed the test; they failed the class. That's all it means for them.
In studies of students' report-card grades, researchers found that girls generally do better than boys in all subjects and in all age groups. But interestingly, this does not make girls more self-confident than boys. Girls tend to have higher standards for themselves and to judge their performance more critically than boys do. And boys tend to have unrealistically high estimations of their own academic abilities and accomplishments.
(Adapted from Strategic Reading 2 by Jack C. Richards and Samuela Eckstut-Didier)